Assumption (short story)

Samuel Beckett's first published story

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"Assumption" is Samuel Beckett's first published story, appearing in Transition magazine in June 1929, in the same issue as James Joyce's Work in Progress.[1]

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1. ^ Fernández, José Francisco (2019-09-13). "More than an Artist in the Making: Samuel Beckett's "Assumption" Revisited". Anglia. 137 (3): 434–448. doi:10.1515/ang-2019-0038. ISSN 1865-8938.

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Samuel Beckett

Plays|

| Theatre|

* Human Wishes
* Eleutheria
* Waiting for Godot
* Act Without Words I
* Act Without Words II
* Endgame
* Krapp's Last Tape
* Rough for Theatre II
* Happy Days
* Play
* Come and Go
* Breath
* Not I
* That Time
* Footfalls
* Neither
* A Piece of Monologue
* Rockaby
* Ohio Impromptu
* Catastrophe
* What Where

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Radio|

* All That Fall
* From an Abandoned Work
* Embers
* The Old Tune
* Rough for Radio I
* Rough for Radio II
* Words and Music
* Cascando

Television|

* Eh Joe
* Ghost Trio
* ... but the clouds ...
* Quad I + II
* Nacht und Träume

Screen|

* Film

Novels|

* Dream of Fair to Middling Women
* Murphy
* Watt
* Mercier and Camier
* Molloy
* Malone Dies
* The Unnamable
* How It Is

Short stories|

* "Assumption"
* "Echo's Bones"
* "First Love"
* "From an Abandoned Work"
* "All Strange Away"
* "Imagination Dead Imagine"
* "Ping"
* "Lessness"
* "The Lost Ones"
* Fizzles
* "neither"
* "Stirrings Still"
* Company
* Ill Seen Ill Said
* "Worstward Ho"

Short story collections|

* More Pricks Than Kicks
* Stories and Texts for Nothing
* The Complete Short Prose 1929–1989
* Nohow On

Non-fiction|

* "Three Dialogues"
* Disjecta
* Proust
* "The Capital of the Ruins"

Related|

* Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil (wife)
* Frances Beckett (aunt)
* James Beckett (uncle)
* Journal of Beckett Studies
* LÉ Samuel Beckett (P61)
* Samuel Beckett Bridge
* Notfilm (2015 documentary)

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